Marked for Araphat Mohammed
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Squad27 Sep 2027
Araphat Mohammed: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FC Copenhagen have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match25 Sep 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 8 matches without defeat is a foundation FC Copenhagen did not have in the autumn.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Mohamed Elyounoussi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
A masterclass from Robert
Marked 9.19 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Marked 9.04 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match25 Sep 2027
A 2‑1 win over Hobro, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Yuya Kubo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Marked 8.15 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Back issues
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Steady
Market13 Sep 2027
The bid was some way short and FC Copenhagen did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Youssoufa Moukoko commits to FC Copenhagen for another 5 years.
Squad13 Sep 2027
Mohamed Elyounoussi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Match11 Sep 2027
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Loan watch13 Sep 2027
“I did not go to Esbjerg to sit and watch. I want to come back to FC Copenhagen and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Squad13 Sep 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match11 Sep 2027
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Player ratings13 Sep 2027
Shots: 10. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
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Steady
Match30 Aug 2027
Position 3, 12 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market30 Aug 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FC Nordsjaelland, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A season average of 7.08 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. FC Nordsjaelland know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad30 Aug 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Nordsjaelland this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match28 Aug 2027
Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 7 matches without defeat is a foundation FC Nordsjaelland did not have in the autumn.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The manager makes an example of Andreas Hansen
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
A performance of 8.35 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market30 Aug 2027
OB are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. FC Nordsjaelland will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
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Crisis
Market26 Jul 2027
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FC Copenhagen, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market26 Jul 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad26 Jul 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at FC Copenhagen this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad26 Jul 2027
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Robert runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match24 Jul 2027
FC Midtjylland left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Market26 Jul 2027
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Mohamed Elyounoussi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Player ratings26 Jul 2027
Shots: 7, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Squad26 Jul 2027
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at FC Copenhagen that is a harder question to answer.
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Triumph
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 34 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Market10 Aug 2026
The chase for Lebo Mothiba ended with $3.2M changing hands and Mamelodi Sundowns out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad10 Aug 2026
126 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market10 Aug 2026
The chase for Rasmus Lauritsen ended with $820.0K changing hands and Brondby out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ola Solbakken commits to FC Nordsjaelland for another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Ola Solbakken was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 21 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
Match8 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Prince Amoako. 1‑0 against FC Midtjylland, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Triumph
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 25, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mark Brink and FC Nordsjaelland agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Mark Brink was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.32 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 9.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ola Solbakken asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.